2006-06-09 01:39:53 · 21 answers · asked by phil_the_sane 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
who do we think is included?
2006-06-09 01:40:10 · update #1
Shave them. We need more baltics.
2006-06-09 01:44:07 · answer #1 · answered by Chuck Dhue 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Listen to what they have to say and think about it, and question your own assumptions. Recognise that without questioning minds, humanity would never make any progress, as dogma would go unchallenged.
I don't like the tone of the question, as it suggests that "we" have a right to "do something" about people whose views we don't happen to share. Like burn them at the stake, perhaps?
What gives "we" any such right to maltreat anyone for havng a different opinion or radical views? This is the self-centeredness and self-importance of orthodoxy gone wacko.
How about debating your views instead of trying to coerce others into accepting them? Eliminating dissent does not win the argument, it simply prevents the argument being held.
Nobody should be victimised by being included on your "To Be Dealt With" list. Yours is the mentality satirised by W, S, Gibert in the Lord High Executioner song from the Mikado:
"Koko: As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,
I’ve got a little list – I’ve got a little list…
For they’d none of them be missed, they’d none of them be missed:
Chorus: You may put ’em on the list - and they’ll none of ’em be missed..
2006-06-09 01:51:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really think that we are past calling people heretics and burning them at the stake.
Most countries in the world have thankfully divorced religion and state and that's the way it should be - religion has no place in government and no person should be forced to submit to any religion under pain of punishment.
2006-06-09 01:56:33 · answer #3 · answered by squimberley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let them be. After all, we're heretics to them. And who's to say I'm not a heretic to reply to your answer?
2006-06-09 01:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by bouncingtigger13 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heretic, meaning literally a person guilty or accused of heresy, is also often used as a title. It is a name attributed to those who present ideas which are contrary to popular opinion, belief, and/or the status quo of any practice or branch of knowledge.
And in answer to your question - unless these people are causing danger or worry to anyone else, leave them alone. Who is this omnipresent "we" you refer to? Do you mean, "we the Christians who know better than anyone who dares to have an opinion differing our own"?
This question is an offence in a free-thinking society.
2006-06-09 06:02:59 · answer #5 · answered by justasiam29 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is interesting that no one has made reference to the Bible yet.
How did Jesus deal with heretics?
Hint - they were called Samaritans.
The most despised of all people - race mixing, heretical foreigners.
2006-06-09 02:07:20 · answer #6 · answered by Montana Don 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello!! Heretic here and proud to be so. Did someone mention burning?
2006-06-09 01:58:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should feed yourselves to the lions and leave the world to the so called heretics, it will be so much more peaceful for us that way
2006-06-09 01:46:16 · answer #8 · answered by howard the duq 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put them in charge as they are right proved by the holy gods
Evidence, Reason, Rationality, Logic.
And are not a buch of would be burn the doctor at the stake homophobic, sexist, sexually repressive, looney, start a relgious war scum.
2006-06-09 01:50:32 · answer #9 · answered by Joey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What should the heretics do with you?
2006-06-09 01:43:30 · answer #10 · answered by Nostromo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We would probably each accuse each other. God knows the whole truth and we will be the perfect judge. We should pray for them but also jail those who seek to control others.
2006-06-09 01:43:29 · answer #11 · answered by hiheaven5 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋